Category Archives: Drawing Now Between the lines of contemporary art

back from a week’s holiday I have come home to “Drawing Now” a recommended book by the OCA drawing course. My first instinct on reading the preface was to look for the webpage “TRACEY” which is run by some of the same group of authors.

pre Renaissance drawing-subjective knowledge of the substance of the world –symbolic pictures

drawing what we see is altered by what we know to be its use

Le Witt’s definition of conceptual art: “in conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art

naming things allows concepts to become forms,

Kant: relationships between understanding and imagining, demonstrable and not, explicable and not: rational (understanding) v aesthetic (distinct from concepts of understanding–imagination and subjective)

Aesthetic sensation may be more visceral then visual

Drawing is an immersion in reaction and anticipation and moves between conscious decision and unconscious compulsion

conscious experience depends on imagination to anticipate and remember. We separate elements of the perceptible from things we do not “see”

elements of experience are lost and as….words constrain and lose experience and become confined by previous explanation,…. so does drawing.

conceptual drawing: a journey around associative thought and does not have to be logical or resolved,provokes an aggregation of memories and impedes access to ….meaning–intangible and ambiguous.